Cisco Solutions Engineer DCN + Compute 

United Kingdom, England, London 

311225429

Whilst no week is ever the same, here are some ideas of what will fill your day;

• Driving our pre-sales engagements by bringing a deep understanding of how technology can solve complex business problems.
• Using your technical knowledge and experience, you'll deliver outstanding technical presentations, facilitate creative solution workshops, lead proof of concept labs, and, when needed - get into the detail of how technology works.
• Staying sharp on the latest products, solutions and market trends, becoming the 'go to' technical specialist that customers trust, enabling us to build lasting and meaningful relationships.
• You'll be part of a tightly coordinated team of extraordinary, versatile, and multi-skilled experts. While you love working under your initiative, you also see the unseen value of close teamwork. You thrive in helping others and always see opportunities to exchange knowledge to develop yourself and your colleagues.
• Competing and winning against other suppliers by advocating a 'big picture' approach, developing outstanding competitive insight and sharing successful strategies with the broader team.

• 3-5 years of technical experience (preferably selling Compute, Storage, and/or DC Networking solutions).
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the following domains and the latest industry advancements in Data Center Networking and Private Cloud technologies, tools, and trends.
• Experience in engaging with customer or partner roles from engineers to team or group leaders, aligning technology to business drivers.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills – ability to value-sell and deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical skills: ability to assess a problem and work within a team to resolve and contribute to an effective course of action

• Detailed knowledge of Cisco’s Data Center Networking and Compute portfolio, including Nexus, ACI, VXLAN/EPVN, Nexus Dashboard, UCS-X and Intersight
• Familiarity of virtualization and containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, VMware, Nutanix and KVM.
• Knowledge of automation approaches and tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform
• Knowledge of networking solutions specifically tailored for AI workloads, ensuring optimal performance and scalability, either during training or inferencing.
• Understanding of network security protocols and solutions. Familiarity with Cisco solutions such as Cisco Firewalls, MultiCloud Defense, Secure Workload and AI Defense is highly valued.